Aleksandra Waliszewska / Enzo Cucchi

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Aleksandra Waliszewska was born in Warsaw in 1976 where she lives and works. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she comes from a matriarchal lineage of female artists spanning four generations. Her haunting, atmospheric paintings draw deeply on art-historical memory, above all the Symbolism of the turn of the 20th century. Her visual narratives orbit the intersection of sex and death: powerful female figures move through apocalyptic landscapes populated by animals, mythical beings, zombies, and hybrid monsters. Her canvases are densely encoded with references to Poland's industrial terrain, its ancient forests and swamps, and its mythological traditions, anchoring an unmistakably Slavic cultural sensibility.

On 2 June 2026, Aleksandra Waliszewska: Irruption of Antiquity, curated by Alison Gingeras, her first solo exhibition in Greece, opens at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture in Athens in collaboration with the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.

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Enzo Cucchi was born in Morro d'Alba in 1949 and lives and works in Rome. In the late 1970s he became one of the leading figures of the Transavanguardia, a name coined by critic Achille Bonito Oliva to define the reintroduction of figuration into painting and sculpture, as a reaction to minimalism and conceptual rigour. Alongside Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, the movement became known internationally in 1980 with a travelling exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, the Folkwang Museum in Essen, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and with its participation at Documenta 7 in 1982. Over the decades his work has been presented in major institutions worldwide: from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to the Guggenheim in New York, from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris to the Wiener Secession, from the Hamburger Kunsthalle to the Castello di Rivoli, to the MAXXI in Rome in 2023.